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1) Wagon wheels
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In 1878, the three Muldie brother-ages eleven, eight, and three-and their father travel from Kentucky to Nicodemus, Kansas. Living in a dugout like other black pioneer families, they endure hunger and hardships before spring comes. Ed Muldie leaves the boys to take care of each other while he looks for a better homestead further west. They hunt, fish, and stay in the dugout until their father's letter arrives months later with a rough map. Following...
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Imavision Distribution
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c2003
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1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Christmas at Plum Creek (from season 1): The Ingalls family works to make their first Christmas in Plum Creek memorable. Laura sells her prized horse, to purchase a stove for Ma, but her sacrifice is made bittersweet when she opens her gift from Pa.
A Christmas they never forgot (from season 8): A snowstorm traps the Ingalls family including Mary and Laura's husbands inside the little house on Christmas Eve. Stories are exchanged about their favorite...
10) Swamp Angel
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Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.
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Canadian West series volume 4
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Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive RCMP outpost in the Canadian Northwest. Elizabeth finds herself totally isolated when the local Indian women are afraid to even communicate with her. The Delaney's thought they had already faced the most crushing disappointment of their lives when they saw little Sammy disappear from view in the arms of his father. Would they be able to survive the...
15) In places hidden
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Golden Gate secrets volume 1
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
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[2018]
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316 pages ; 23 cm.
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With the stakes rising and threats looming, Camri Coulter and Irishman Patrick Murdock work together to find Camri's brother Caleb.
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Ardustry Home Entertainment
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2003, c1993
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1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The spectacular but unforgiving terrain of 1927 Vermont sets the stage for this collision between high-stakes progress and a frontier way of life. Legendary Yankee log-driver, Noel Lord defies power company boss, Clayton Farnsworth who orders Lord and his feisty American Indian mate off their soon-to-be flooded land. Farnsworth never met a man he couldn't buy ... but then, he'd never met Noel Lord.
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people around the world. A bestselling author and the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society, Bird is recognized today as a pioneering woman whose contributions to travel writing, exploration,...
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HarperCollins
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c1994
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89 p. : coll. ill. ; 25 cm.
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A collection of stories which describe the experiences of a pioneer girl and her family as they celebrate various Christmases In the Big Woods in Wisconsin, on the prairie in Indian Territory, and on the banks of Plum Creek.
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"1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders of...
20) My Ántonia
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The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly concerning a young Bohemian girl named Ántonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
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